ERNEST MABASA
Lethabile High School Rugby coach Charlie Chilly could not talk for few seconds due to outstanding performance from his team in the Regional Winter School Games on Friday.
Lethabile went to the tournament with winning mentality that claimed two successive wins on day. Having smashing Soshanguve based Kgadime High school 27-0 in their first game and followed by 27-5 against Thakgalang High school at the Loftus Versfeld stadium. Chilly expressed his compliment to the boys. He says a coach cannot ask for more when a team is performing this way. “I am very happy with the boys. They have done a very good work. This comes from discipline I instill in them. No team can go far without discipline in players. I can’t express the excitement I am going through now. It is just tears of joy,” he said.
Coach Chilly, who is coaching the boys for the first in this career, says they have been hard at training and this team never gone this far in the past few years. “We train very hard. We are always at training from Mondays to Fridays. We just do not have time to waste because we want the best performance from ourselves. We can only be thankful and grateful to the Gauteng Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation and the Department of Education for commitment to reviving school leagues with the Gauteng Schools Games programme,” said Chilly.
These games are government initiative to develop talents from pupils. It has rugby, soccer, netball and volley ball codes. The Regional Winter games will see 15 winning schools from ongoing school leagues across Gauteng regions compete for selection to represent their district at the Gauteng Provincial School Games next month. “On the 15th or the 16th of August, we are going to play in the provincial level. We are very confident that it well be just a walk in the park. We are winners not losers. We do not lose. If you don’t believe me come see us train at the Stanza Bopape Sports ground in Mamelodi. For the provincial school games, we only promise a win. We will play basic Rugby. We want to score tries,” he said.
